Esansiyel Hipertansiyonu olan Nijeryalılarda İntraventriküler İletim Blokları ve Mikroalbüminüri

Authors : Olusegun Adesola BUSARİ, Timothy Segun OLAREWAJU, Segun Matthew AGBOOLA, Ahmed Kayode JIMOH

Pages : 1-7

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Publication Date : 2013-06-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence and pattern of intraventricular conduction blocks in adult Nigerians with newly diagnosed essential hypertension and to determine the relationship between microalbuminuria and intraventricular conduction blocks. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study with nested case control. Ninety six patients were consecutively enrolled and compared with age- and sex-matched ninety six healthy normotensive individuals. Pre-tested questionnaire was used for data collection. The data collected was doubly entry into SPSS 20.0 software and analysed. P value < 0.05 was accepted as significance. Results: There were 52 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(54.2%); male and 46 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(45.8%); female hypertensive patients. Twenty one patients insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(21.9%); had intraventricular conduction blocks compared with 4 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(4.2%); among the normotensive controls insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(21.9% versus 4.2%, P = 0.001); and left anterior fascicular block was the most frequent insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(38.1%);. The prevalence of microalbuminuria was 32.3% in the hypertensive patients. Intraventricular blocks were significantly more common in hypertensive patients with microalbuminuria than in those without it insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(32.3% versus 16.9%, P=0.01);. Conclusion: This study reveals that there is a high prevalence of intraventricular conduction blocks in adult Nigerians with newly diagnosed essential hypertension and left anterior fascicular block is the most common type. It also shows that the subset of hypertensive patients with microalbuminuria is more likely to have intraventricular blocks than those without it.
Keywords : Hypertension, Intraventricular conduction blocks, Microalbuminuria